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Alarming Situation of Legal Education in Few States in India

As per the results of the AIBE (All India Bar Examination) conducted in January 2012, the pass percentage of the candidates are reflecting the poor condition of the legal education in few states. The pass percentage of the three most backward states in legal education are as follows.

1.       Chhattisgarh (39.53%).

2.    Andhra Pradesh (41.38%)

3.    Gujarat (45.7 %,) came third from the bottom.

This is due to the mushrooming of Law Colleges, no bar at the entry level, inadequate number of law teachers and outdated curriculum and teaching methods. In the exam held in January 2011, Gujarat was second last among rest of the states with a pass percentage of 40%.  There are lot many colleges in theses states. In most of these colleges even attendance is not compulsory. As for exams, more or less the same questions are repeated every year and so students just mug up some of these questions.  AIBE (All India Bar Examination) is entirely a different ball game for them as it thoroughly tests the legal knowledge of a student. Most of the students from these states are used to an examination system that does not challenge their knowledge; they find the AIBE exams a tough call. As in the three-and-half hour exam, a candidate needs to score a minimum of 45 marks out of 100 to clear it.

The Bar Council of India should take it very seriously and must take serious measures to upgrade the standards of legal education especially in those states which are backward in legal education. The concerned Govts should also take it very seriously and provide basic supports to the colleges which are lacking the basic infrastructure facilities, like library, faculty, modern class rooms, moot court facilities, computers, internet, online journal etc.

As per the current BCI norms of Part IV of the Rules of Legal Education and Inspection Manual December, 2010, now opening a new law college is very very difficult. Because the startup law colleges are required to full fill the new norms which are benchmarked with global standards. That is really something great done by the BCI. We must be thankful to all the members of the “Legal Education Committee” of the Bar council of India and specially Prof. N.L. Mitra for this great job.

However the question is that how the BCI will upgrade the said poor law colleges which do not satisfy the current BCI norms and still enjoys the BCI accreditation and approval. Now they have to seriously think about these colleges and find out effective measure to regulate them. BCI should ask them either to satisfy the new norms or shut down. Then only we will be able to upgrade the standards of legal education in India in the real sense and can face the challenges of Globalization and satisfy the obligation to allow the opening of our legal service market for the member countries of WTO.

ConferenceLex (Call for Papers): Alliance University in collaboration with American Marketing Association will be hosting the Inaugural AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium

ConferenceLex (Call for Papers): Alliance University in collaboration with American Marketing Association will be hosting the Inaugural AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium

NewsLex: Americans are still politically divided on health care issue and both the political parties see a decision will be a key factor that could decide whether Obama gets a second term

NewsLex: Americans are still politically divided on health care issue and both the political parties see a decision will be a key factor that could decide whether Obama gets a second term

Intellectual Property Dispute between Aerolab & Sahara Force India

The dispute between Design Company Aerolab and Force India has been settled, on 23^rd March, 2012, at the High Court in London. Sahara Force India was directed by the London High Court judge to pay outstanding fees of more than £700,000 to Aerolab, although Force India was handed just under £21,000 in compensation for use of its intellectual property.
This penalty comes in as a part of the declaration of an intellectual property dispute between the two teams. Despite the High Court ruling, the Silverstone-based team now plans to refer the matter to the FIA for further consideration given that using the intellectual property of other teams is banned under F1 rules. The UK High Court judgement, in respect of the illegal copying, will now be referred for the consideration of Formula One's governing body, the FIA," the team said, "whilst the Italian criminal case against Mike Gascoyne, Tony Fernandes and Jean Claude Migeot remains ongoing.

With already prevailing difficulties around reports that Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines may collapse following rising debts, frozen bank accounts, cancellation of flights and delay in salary payments, verdict on Force India might come as another blow for the tycoon. Aerolab had worked with Force India until 2009, when its ended the relationship over unpaid bills – with the company then starting work with the new Caterham team (then running under the Lotus name) just days later. Vijay Mallya's Formula One team had also alleged Aerolab and Caterham's chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne of misusing the team's intellectual property. However, Justice Arnold stated Force India "has come nowhere near establishing that. Force India claimed that the Lotus T127 had featured a large number of parts copied from Force India's design and although the court stated that the intellectual property rights had been used as a 'shortcut' it threw out claims that there has been 'systematic copying' of the design and said Force India hadn't come close to proving that to be the case.

Force India, which had prized its car designs at 15 million pounds ($23.8 million), may witness another hearing on legal costs, in May. It is said that the bill could be the final straw for struggling Mallya, who may now cede control of Force India to 42.5 per cent shareholder Subrata Roy, another billionaire of India. Relating to the teams' two-year intellectual property dispute, the High Court in London, however, also charged Aerolab for misuse of confidential information, and has asked the company to pay Rs 16.7 lakh (€25,000) to Force India. Some parts created using Force India confidential information were used on the Team Lotus race cars in the early part of the 2010 season.

Source: http://www.crash.net/f1/new,

http://sports.ndtv.com/formula-1/news/item

GMM

 

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Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad,

Program Director 

Allaince College of Law, Alliance University,

 City Campus -2^nd Cross, 36^th Main, Dollars Scheme, BTM 1^st Stage 

Bangalore -560068

Central Campus- Chandapura - Anekal Main Road, Bangalore – 562106

tabrez.ahmad@alliance.edu.in

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Prof. Fiazan Mustafa New VC of NALSAR

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My teacher, mentor and guide, Prof. Faizan Mustafa, former Dean, Faculty of Law and former Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University, former Director, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of NALSAR Law University, Hyderabad. Prof. Mustafa is presently the Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Cuttack Orissa. Prof. Mustafa within a short time by maintaining a high class teaching and research established the National Law University Orissa and brought it to the global standards even there was lot of hurdles in his way. He designed a very innovative curriculum of NLUO and made lot of new experiments like 3 years LLM.PhD conjoint program.

Prof. Mustafa is the senior professor of Law Faculty Aligarh Muslim University and has vast administrative experience. He has a number of books to his credit, which have been widely quoted by scholars in India and abroad.
Prof. Mustafa has specialization on new areas of legal studies such as Copyright Law, Human Rights etc. He has authored  around 10 books out of which two books on the Right to information in 1997 and 2002 published much before the Right to Information Act, 2005 came into existence. Besides being a visiting faculty to a number of reputed universities in India and abroad, he is the nominee of Chief Justice of India at various university bodies.

The search committee headed by Hon'ble Justice A. K. Ganguly, former Judge, Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of Karnataka suggested three names including that of Prof. Faizan Mustafa after short-listing 10 candidates.

Legal fraternity of India have a great hope from Prof. Mustafa and expect that he will definitely bring the NALSAR which is number one university in India as per the current ratings to the global rankings at par with, Cambridge, Harvard & Yale Law Schools.

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Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad,

Program Director 

College of Law, Alliance University,

 City Campus -2^nd Cross, 36^th Main, Dollars Scheme, BTM 1^st Stage 

Bangalore -560068

Central Campus- Chandapura - Anekal Main Road, Bangalore – 562106

tabrez.ahmad@alliance.edu.in

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Article on Comparative Analysis of Copyright Protection of Databases: The Path to Follow” published in JIPR

The paper  titled: "Comparative Analysis of Copyright Protection of Databases: The Path to Follow" , has been published today in the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)  Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR). Please click the below links to see the article.

 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1839325

 

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/13716

 

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/13716/1/JIPR%2017%282%29%20111-121.pdf

 

Thanking you,

Regards,

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Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad,

Program Director 

College of Law, Alliance University,

 City Campus -2^nd Cross, 36^th Main, Dollars Scheme, BTM 1^st Stage 

Bangalore -560068

Central Campus- Chandapura - Anekal Main Road, Bangalore – 562106

tabrez.ahmad@alliance.edu.in

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